Workshop on Developing a Blackboard Web site

For reservation, contact the Department of Mathematics at 3597 by October 28th.

The Department of Mathematics at Central Michigan University is organizing a two sessions of workshop on how to use the Blackboard to develop a course web site. Main focus will be on developing a Blackboard site for quantitative courses such as Statistics and Mathematics. This workshop is in part supported by the NSF/CCLI Grant #0310932. The workshop is open to instructors at Central Michigan University.

Session One will be at introductory level. Functions of the Blackboard will be discussed. Basic development of a blackboard will be given.

Session Two will be the continuation of Session One. It will focus on more advanced functionality of the blackboard, including web equation editing, handling images and graphs, virtual classroom setup, on-line group management, online test development and others.

Participants are encouraged to bring material for his or her courses to develop a Blackboard site for their courses.


TIME:

Session One --- 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, November 4th, 2003.

Session Two --- 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, November 11th, 2003.

Location: The Woldt Computer Lab.

Maximum Number of Participants: 25

For reservation, contact the Department of Mathematics at 3597 by October 28th.